Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kansas Republicans achieved the historic feat of sending the first woman to a full term in the Senate without any help from a husband's previous political career.* To be sure, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 46, did not hide the fact that she was 1936 Presidential Candidate Alf Landon's daughter, no handicap in Kansas despite Landon's humiliating loss to F.D.R. But she proved a candid and outgoing campaigner, and her fresh personality meshed neatly with the voters' yearnings for change. Her opponent, Democrat Bill Roy, a physician and lawyer, had run unsuccessfully for the Senate before and had been...
...gently wipe our hide...
...negotiator, threatened to withdraw wage concessions. And the union fell into line. Powers also repeatedly accused the union's chief shop steward of "bad faith negotiating" because he revealed his dissatisfaction with the contract. Relations between the two deteriorated so severely during the negotiations that Powers barely troubled to hide his contempt. In the aftermath of the heated contract debate, kitchen workers remain quietly frustrated. So did the printing workers after they reluctantly accepted their contract last spring, and B&G workers say the abortive strike still rankles...
...most states parental rights to discipline their children are limited only by a patchwork of legal injunctions against serious physical injury and flagrant neglect. Members of the protective service must hide their own anger and proceed with a blend of cajolery, compassion and very limited powers of compulsion as they try to protect abused children. The welfare department's official charge, though, is with nothing less than "preserving healthy family life" in the state. Often, helping children means trying to bring parents to such a condition of emotional stability that they will no longer want to beat their kids...
Seith has depicted Percy as a do-nothing Senator who spends most of his time on the Georgetown cocktail circuit and tries to hide an "abysmal" voting record. Charged Seith: "He speaks out of both sides of his mouth." By criticizing the sale of jets to Saudi Arabia, Seith hopes to gain support from Jews. He has also been running an unfair advertisement on Chicago's black radio stations implying that Percy approved the racial jokes that cost former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz his job in 1976. The ads do not mention that Percy himself had called for Butz...